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The Origins of Life Could Indeed Be “Interstellar”
Some of science's most pressing questions involve the origins of life on Earth. How did the first lifeforms emerge from…
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Why Watch ESA Rosetta’s Movie ‘Ambition’? Because We Want to Know What is Possible
NASA has taken on space missions that have taken years to reach their destination; they have more than a dozen…
Questioning the Impact Theory: What Really Killed the Dinosaurs?
About sixty five and a half million years ago, the Earth suffered its largest known cosmic impact. An asteroid or…
Asteroid That Dwarfed Dinosaur-Killer Punched Earth 3 Billion Years Ago, Study Says
Early in Earth's history, a killer asteroid smashed a hole in our planet about 300 miles (500 kilometers) wide, which…
Did Life On Earth As We Know It Come From ‘Geological Life’?
When it comes to life on Earth, we're not sure if it came from the outside (transported by comets) or…
Astronomers See Snow … In Space!
There's an excellent chance of frost in this corner of the universe: astronomers have spotted a "snow line" in a…
Russian Asteroid Explosion and Past Impactors Paint a Potentially Grim Future for Earth
The recent meteor explosion over Chelyabinsk brought to the forefront a topic that has worried astronomers for years, namely that an impactor…
What Craters on the Moon Teach Us About Earth
When the Moon was receiving its highest number of impacts, so was Earth. Credit: Dan Durda Some questions about our…
In an Isolated, Ice-Covered Antarctic Lake Far Below Freezing, Life is Found
Lake Vida lies within one of Antarctica's cold, arid McMurdo Dry Valleys (Photo: Desert Research Institute) Even inside an almost…
Hunting for High Life: What Lives in Earth’s Stratosphere?
The Moon photographed through the layers of the atmosphere from the ISS in December 2003 (NASA/JSC) What lives at the…